Dec 28, 2016

R:Joyce Episode 359 – Missionaries & Malahide

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You commented on Joyce's use of "perceived" to indicate both that Father Conmee smelled something and saw something. I wonder if he was thinking of Italian, in which "sentire" can mean to feel, to smell, to hear, to taste--in other words the exercise of any of the senses.

The church & state on the move through the wandering rocks of Dublin. Father Conmee S.J. And Lord Dudley representing the church in Rome & the king of england. Back in 9 In the library remember all the nastiness thrown at Stephen by Dublin literary elites? They both look down on him & hate him because he's so talented and he knows it. It is in these Dublin rocks that both Stephen & bloom are wandering just trying to survive. Neither church or state are very helpful to either. This bitterness is deeply infused in all Joyce's work & his life as well